The next issue of Your EveryDay Write, our free writing-prompt and tip ezine, will be out on the 30th.
Subscription is free to all. However, the extensive archives of YEW are only available to Pro Write members.
Here's an excerpt from the new issue:
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Your writing is YOU. Just as silkworms spin silk from mulberry leaves, you spin writing from your life's experiences. The more you know and understand yourself, the more you will know and understand the world, and the more you'll have to write about.
I'm a believer in the "black box" theory of personality. That is, you know someone (and yourself), by their actions -- by what they do -- NOT by what they say, or by what they think.
This theory comes in handy when you're writing fiction. :-) The curse of the neophyte novelist is the thinking and talking head. If you decide that your characters have to DO stuff, you'll find that your fiction is suddenly much more interesting.
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